Profile of Amitava Sarkar (Director)

Prof Amitava Sarkar, M.S., Ph.D. (CMU, Pittsburgh); is currently Professor and Director at its School of Management, West Bengal University of Technology (WBUT); he also recently served as Vice-Chancellor (Actg.), West Bengal University of Technology (WBUT). He taught for a number of years, among others, at Southern Illinois, Pittsburgh, CMU , Indian Statistical Institute, and until recently was Head of Calcutta University’s MBA Programme at Indian Institute of Social Welfare & Business Management and a member of Post-Graduate Faculty Council, Management, Commerce & Social Welfare at University of Calcutta.

An economist by training, he specializes in areas of business economics, macro, financial economics, international finance, econometric/forecasting techniques. He had been an economist member in (World Bank initiated) project on socioeconomic survey for and preparation of economic /financial profile for the project affected at Farakka